Building renovation will be centre stage in Ireland’s EU presidency on 5 November – with a key retrofit event in an RIAI ...

Current life cycle carbon guidance was never designed for domestic retrofit. A new framework aims to change that – and to ...

The Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) has welcomed the new investment in housing, retrofit and infrastructure announced in Budget 2027, while also saying that more needs to be done to make Ireland ...

The Irish government has announced a range of new retrofit grant measures targeted at households exposed to high energy costs – and increased grants for switching to heat pumps. The new grants will be ...

Ten years ago Brussels had some of the most energy inefficient building stock in Europe — now it boasts a groundbreaking policy that means all new buildings in the region must be passive. How did the ...

A disastrous failed external insulation contract run under a government energy saving scheme has affected up to 390 homes in Preston with water penetration, mould and damp. This article was originally ...

Early in October, Norwich City Council’s Goldsmith Street development become both the first passive house and the first social housing project to win the Stirling Prize, British architecture’s most ...

Once poorly understood by the mainstream building industry, airtightness is now increasingly seen as one of the most crucial objectives on any building project. Not only is it vital for energy ...

Thermal bridges will most likely occur where one building element meets another, for example a wall meeting a window. This article was originally published in issue 45 of Passive House Plus magazine.

With 35,000 homes under their belt, one of the UK and Ireland's most prolific developers has just completed its first passive house scheme - aided by an innovative airtightness approach. Heating costs ...

Calculated space heating cost: £22/month (est. space heating cost for a typical 2-bed apartment – see 'In detail' panel for more) West of Scotland Housing Association (WSHA) set their sights on ...

When homeowner Steve discovered a neglected 1980s bungalow during the pandemic, he faced a dilemma. Born with significant physical differences, the computer programmer and Team GB Paralympian needed a ...